She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou have more people that love you than you know.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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